The Business of Automation

Abstract

If you use AppleScript for more than the occasional script you write for yourself, then you are saving someone time and increasing their productivity. All that goodness translates into money that someone is either saving or making. An AppleScript return on investment study published a few years ago by GISTICS suggests that media producers saved over $100 million during 1998 alone (for more info on this study, see the “Taking the next step” section).